I really appreciate both this piece and your drive to leave this world better than you found it!
This made me think about two of my favorite older pieces about EA, which are both about the tie between one’s own losses and a drive to do something positive:
Derek Thompson on donating after the death of his mother: “Malaria is not merely the greatest killer of children in the world, but also it is the greatest killer of pregnant women. The disease plunders motherhood from both sides of the equation. The loss of a mother must be quantifiable by some measure of creative accounting, but in my experience it is immeasurable. This much I knew: There is the thing that I want, I cannot have it, but I can give it to somebody else.”
[edited later: second piece is no longer available]
I really appreciate both this piece and your drive to leave this world better than you found it!
This made me think about two of my favorite older pieces about EA, which are both about the tie between one’s own losses and a drive to do something positive:
Derek Thompson on donating after the death of his mother: “Malaria is not merely the greatest killer of children in the world, but also it is the greatest killer of pregnant women. The disease plunders motherhood from both sides of the equation. The loss of a mother must be quantifiable by some measure of creative accounting, but in my experience it is immeasurable. This much I knew: There is the thing that I want, I cannot have it, but I can give it to somebody else.”
[edited later: second piece is no longer available]